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Getting a (Second)Life
Clare AtkinsSunset in Bombyx
Welcome
to my world
Arwenna Stardust says:
What is Second Life?www.secondlife.com • A 3D online digital world, imagined created
and owned by its residents
Residents are the avatars of real peopleResidents can buy and sell anything from
virtual land to virtual sexual favours!Residents can build 3D objects,animate
them, use them and/or sell themEverything is integrated into
a real-time fully interactive environment
Is it a game?It has no specific purpose or goalThere is nothing to win or lose
(except money – real and virtual)There are no game ‘rules’ – although
there are principles of behaviourIt is really a multi-user virtual
environment (MUVE) – sometimes the ‘metaverse’
Who is using it?
A number of businesses,– IBM, General Motors, Toyota Motors, Dell, Cisco Systems,
Sun Microsystems, Reuters Group and Harcourts (NZ)……Sweden is opening an embassy… apply for work permits, tourist
info…A number of TEOs and libraries,
Australian Film TV and Radio School, MIT, Harvard, The Open University, Stanford University, University of California Berkeley, State Library of Kansas, Victoria University of Wellington, NMIT……
U2, Suzanne Vega and BBC orchestra have all given live concerts.
Many new businesses created in SL, around 600 people employed in ‘real jobs’.
Currently over 5m people have visited, over 1.5m visited
in last 60 days and around 35,000 are online at any one time.
Second Life is a 3D platform that can be used for:
Presenting, promoting, and selling content to a broad online audience
Collaborating and communicating in real time between multiple participants
Researching new concepts/products
Training and educating in virtual classrooms, for example
Ohio University have just released this promotional video
2mins 33secs
EduIsland – NMIT Garden
Ready for a visit?A URL can be created in Second
Life called a “slurl”, it provides a means of
accessing a specific location in the SL world, just like providing a website address
Arwenna and Aidan at NMIT
The NMIT slurl is: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland/94/211/23 here
Dipping NMIT toes into virtual waterEnd 2006 – Rented space on EduIsland for NMIT for 1
year
2007 Sem 1 – Informal trial with SYD300 IT students2007 Sem 2 – Part of e-capability project using
Moodle, Sloodle and Second Life to, support students in PRJ300
End 2007 – Rental due for payment for 2008! ($750NZ)
Potential?An addition to our blended delivery tools?
Sloodle is software that is being developed to make Moodle available from Second Life
Role-playing scenarios?Interactive peer to peer and staff to peer
interaction?In world
classes/seminars/presentations/workshops….3D visualisations of concepts, micro things -
explore a heart…..???SYD300 students in the NMIT gazebo
Should we be scared?
In a ‘virtual’ world is learning ‘virtual’?How can we make the learning real?Is it playing with technology or re-
inventing educational practice?Is it ethical?
What’s next?
Do we turn our backs?What does it mean for us as educators, as students, as people?
Do we sit and watch while others try it
Do we cautiously experiment?Do we leap in and risk drowning?
What is dawning?
I have no idea ! But I have a feeling that it will shape our world in ways we can’t imagine!